Texas Ag Today - October 22, 2024
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*There is some good cotton to be found on the Texas High Plains.
*Deer leases should pay off this year with a good season.
*A West Texas cotton gin is celebrating 100 years in business.
*Fed cattle prices took a dip in the summer, but they are coming back strong this fall.
*A lawmaker from Texas is making sure that farmers and ranchers in the Rio Grande Valley have a voice in negotiations over the 1944 water treaty with Mexico.
*The Grand Champion steer at the State Fair of Texas sold for a record price.
*Cotton strippers are rolling in West Texas.
*Now is the time to pregnancy test your spring calving beef cows.
*A proposed USDA rule may eliminate competition in cattle marketing.
*West Texas A&M University is looking for better ways to grow strawberries.
*USDA will test milk in states where dairy cattle tested positive for the H5N1 virus.
*It was hard to grow grass in the Texas High Plains this...
Published 11/05/24
*The final leg of the Texas sorghum harvest will be both good and bad.
*Avian influenza has now passed to a pig.
*The dispute over Mexico’s ban on biotech corn is expected to be settled by the end of the year.
*Texas High Plains farmers may go with more sorghum next year.
*If Congress...
Published 11/04/24